Articles Posted in Juvenile Crimes

Everyone makes mistakes as a teenager. Unfortunately, some of life’s lessons can follow us into adulthood. Criminal charges from your youth may continue to affect you as an adult and you may not even know it. For this reason, Illinois legislators offer former offenders the chance for a “do-over” through expungement and record sealing. These…

Your child has top grades, a slew of extracurriculars, and the SAT/ACT scores they need to get into the school of their dreams. If they also have a juvenile record, though, their chances of getting into college at all are severely compromised. Did you know that most colleges require applicants to disclose their criminal history,…

Most parents fear, on some level, that their children will have a brush with the law. The reality is even good kids do dangerous or stupid things on occasion. If they’re caught, they could face serious legal trouble. As a parent, your first inclination is to help your child in any way that you can.…

How to people learn? By making mistakes. Everyone has to live a little, experiment with their surroundings, and make mistakes in order to learn for themselves how the world works. At no time is this truer than when we are growing up – and as we grow, the potential of those mistakes to be bigger…

Although Chicago jails are packed with offenders of low-level drug crimes, the drug crime rate in the city continues to trump national averages. Every month, hundreds of marijuana arrests are made in Cook County alone. As Cook County State Attorney Anita Alvarez explained to reporters from the Chicago Tribune, “what we are currently doing here…

While adolescent drug use is certainly not a new phenomenon, it does seem that the trend has been picking up steam in recent years. With shows like Breaking Bad and Weeds reaching such remarkable levels of popularity, it appears as though illicit drug use is becoming more widely acceptable among the public, especially among young…